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Since retiring from the State Department, I have written two novels. The first was published under the pseudonym David Carmell:

The PLOT to COOL the PLANET, A Novel

by Sam Bleicher. Newman Springs Publishing.

Coming Earth Day, April 22, 2019, in e-book and paperback

Mounting Ecosystem Disruption

A Notorious Murder

A
Rogue Diplomatic Scheme

June 2020. An outspoken climate scientist is
murdered. Investigators believe she was assassinated to end her forceful
advocacy for untested geoengineering techniques that might slow global warming.

Frequent extreme storms and rising sea
levels are undermining the viability of coastal cities. Millions of subsistence
farmers and fishermen are facing ruin as crops yields fall and fisheries
disappear. No nation is volunteering to take in climate refugees.

Frustrated by the global paralysis, three
small-island diplomats secretly launch a rogue venture to cool the planet. The
odds of success are low, and the threat to their careers and lives is tangible.
But they feel morally obligated to try.

Their project uncovers other
surreptitious interventions, causing perilous political, diplomatic, and
military confrontations.

Seizing his
opportunity in 2014, Alabama Senator Augustus Williams relentlessly
pursues his dream of becoming the South’s first white Supreme Court
Justice in decades, using every device at his disposal.

His decade-long
quest reverberates across the tangled web of Washington and national
politics, with devastating consequences. It irreversibly alters his own
life, the lives of lovers, friends, and strangers, and the course of
history.

Appointments is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Appointments-Novel-Politics-Nations-Capital-ebook/dp/B00E4A1XM6/